Being someone who lives in Longmont and uses NextLight daily, I have to say that Longmont, did, indeed, do it right. Remember though that we had some significant advantages over other cities. We already owned our own electric utility which means we owned the poles and we had the infrastructure such as trucks, phone support, billing systems, etc. that we could reasonably easily build a fiber network on top of. We didn't have to fight the local for-profit electric utility, for instance, to get access to our own citizens. Longmont's had a very forward-thinking government for at least a century (when we first decided to create our own not for profit power company for our citizens). Most cities, unfortunately, can't claim the same.